There's another word/phrase for being 'terminally online' or Internet addiction, and it's 'Extremely online'[0]. Although whether one can be truly addicted to the Internet is debatable. There are extreme cases, like in Japan of gamers literally dying from prolonged & excessive playing of online video games.
For me I dedicate a two hour window of time to being online, and typically come out of it enriched, not craving for more. It's a learning experience 99% of the time.
> Extremely online (often capitalized[1]), also known as terminally online[2] or chronically online,[3] is a phrase referring to someone closely engaged with Internet culture.[1] People said to be extremely online often believe that online posts are very important.[4][5] Events and phenomena can themselves be extremely online;[4] while often used as a descriptive term, the phenomenon of extreme onlineness has been described as "both a reformation of the delivery of ideas – shared through words and videos and memes and GIFs and copypasta – and the ideas themselves".[5] It has been said that "'online' can be thought of as a way of doing things, not the place they are done".[4]
> While the term was in use as early as 2014, it gained use over the latter half of the 2010s in conjunction with the increasing prevalence and notability of Internet phenomena in all areas of life.[1] Extremely online people, according to The Daily Dot, are interested in topics "no normal, healthy person could possibly care about",[1] and have been analogized to "pop culture fandoms, just without the pop".[1] Extremely online phenomena such as fan culture and reaction GIFs have been described as "swallowing democracy" by bloggers such as Amanda Hess in The New York Times;[6] who claimed that a "great convergence between politics and culture, values and aesthetics, citizenship and commercialism" had become "a dominant mode of experiencing politics".[6] Vulture (formerly the pop culture section of New York magazine, now a stand-alone website) has a section for articles tagged "extremely online".[7]
For me I dedicate a two hour window of time to being online, and typically come out of it enriched, not craving for more. It's a learning experience 99% of the time.
> Extremely online (often capitalized[1]), also known as terminally online[2] or chronically online,[3] is a phrase referring to someone closely engaged with Internet culture.[1] People said to be extremely online often believe that online posts are very important.[4][5] Events and phenomena can themselves be extremely online;[4] while often used as a descriptive term, the phenomenon of extreme onlineness has been described as "both a reformation of the delivery of ideas – shared through words and videos and memes and GIFs and copypasta – and the ideas themselves".[5] It has been said that "'online' can be thought of as a way of doing things, not the place they are done".[4]
> While the term was in use as early as 2014, it gained use over the latter half of the 2010s in conjunction with the increasing prevalence and notability of Internet phenomena in all areas of life.[1] Extremely online people, according to The Daily Dot, are interested in topics "no normal, healthy person could possibly care about",[1] and have been analogized to "pop culture fandoms, just without the pop".[1] Extremely online phenomena such as fan culture and reaction GIFs have been described as "swallowing democracy" by bloggers such as Amanda Hess in The New York Times;[6] who claimed that a "great convergence between politics and culture, values and aesthetics, citizenship and commercialism" had become "a dominant mode of experiencing politics".[6] Vulture (formerly the pop culture section of New York magazine, now a stand-alone website) has a section for articles tagged "extremely online".[7]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_online